A 65 year-old-man from India is appearing in his secondary school exams for the 44th time. Kanpur City’s Mian Jabbar Husen could not clear his exams for 43 years but still has not lost hope to pass it.
A small civilian aircraft crashed Friday off the Southern California coast. The U.S Coast Guard located floating debris and an oil slick in the ocean yesterday and was searching for survivors after the plane went down 30 miles off Oceanside.
It was five and a half years ago that Roy Horn was attacked by his tiger in a performance in Las Vegas. Last night on ABC’s 20/20, legendary illusionists Siegfried & Roy were interviewed by Elizabeth Vargas about the incident.
Former Pistons head coach Chuck Daly has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The 78-year-old Hall of Famer guided the Pistons to back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990. He also was the coach of the 1992 gold medal-winning US Olympic squad dubbed the “Dream Team.”
Danica McKellar (aka Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years) stops by “Good Day.” The 34-year-old actress-turned-mathematician is in New York this week to speak at the Celebration of Teaching and Learning conference.
Despite many media reports claiming that she’d named her son Ickett, M.I.A, whose real name is Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, took to her MySpace page Friday to say it ain’t so.